I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Once we were in love, So I know it's true, the saying: True love never endsFor as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more Now that we are friends

Wishes and wants do not transform a person

Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.